NEW: Haunt the Holidays free expansion! Haunt your way through a town in the dead of night! Possess objects with your ghostly soul, to scare people away from a museum, a hospital, a theatre and a cruise ship. Will you be able to scare everyone out and reclaim what has been lost, before the night is over?

Reviews

“Honestly I fell in love with the concept behind Haunt the House the moment I heard about it.”
4/5 – PSNStores

“The visuals are gorgeous, with a unique style which is both cute and creepy at the same time. The audio is also impressive, boasting effective spot effects and some genuinely amusing sounds.”
7/10 – Pocket Gamer

About This Game

NEW: Brand new level added, for free: Haunt the Holidays! Scare all the shoppers out of the North Pole Department Store! Play as a new little ghost as she comes in from the freezing cold!

...What was that sound? Is somebody there?

Leave the dusty halls of an abandoned clock tower to haunt your way through a town in the dead of night! Possess objects with your ghostly soul, to scare people away from a museum, a hospital, a theatre and a cruise ship. Will you be able to scare everyone out and reclaim what has been lost, before the night is over?

A side-scrolling action puzzle game starring ghosts!

Features

A vibrant town with 5 locations to visit, each with it's own musical style and unique objects

Hundreds of different objects to possess, with several surprising powers each to try

A beautiful original score featuring world-class live session musicians

A large cast of townfolk, each with a personality, voice and sense of style

Haunt the House: Terrortown is in essence a game about playing the man behind the haunted house curtain. As a lonely ghost (or so I would assume, given the story centers around reclaiming the souls of others so as to collect a band of ghost friends...or something like that) it's your job to float around and posses objects to scare the living daylights out of party goers until they either abandon ship (sometimes literally) or out of stubbornness end up dead at your ghostly hands.

The problem I have with HtH is that there really isn't enough - it - here. It's mechanics are incredibly shallow and inconsistent, largely boiling down to spamming random scares until the person you are scaring finally gets the idea and fleas the scene, which doesn't really give you much of anything to work with. It never feels like you have any real control over anything, as people will run any which way they want often irregardless of how scared they are or where the source of their terror is. It makes actually getting anyone out of the house (or wherever you might happen to be) rather tedious and uninteresting, like you're shooing flies with a newspaper, occasionally lucking out and hitting one.

I guess it's somewhat a blessing then that the game is completable in under 30 minutes, as any longer and I'd likely have dropped it out of boredom, but that then falls back into the issue of there not being much of anything here. It feels like a free game fancied up into something that might resemble a fuller experience, which is pretty much exactly what Terrortown is: a slightly larger version of the original Haunt the House flash game, which more than likely lasts as long as you would want to spend with the game, and is far easier to recommend being that it's still freely available.

I'm Not going to post a long review of this, but i don't need to either. :)A Great Game, that does run smothly on even the shitiest computer, (Mine for example).An extremly fun game with simple mechanics.Buy this game!

This is a really cute game. I don't regret purchasing it. I would had loved it though if there was more to do and more places to 'haunt'. The design of the game is cute, too. Maybe if things, such as how much you can do within one place, was stretched out to more places it would had made the game so much better, and longer. That's my only complaint about this game.

First of all go play the original flash game version of Haunt the House on Kongregate or Newgrounds or whatever.

All right did you do that? Yeah? Well if you liked that and wanted a few new levels and to support the devs than Terrortown is for you because that's what it is, more Haunt the House. Nothing much different aside from an improved atmopshere. As people say it is short but right now you can get it for less than 3 dollars and that's the price of a candy bar or something. I thought it was worth it and you can always just come back to it for some quick fun.

I love this game. I can play it with my 7 year old son without feeling that it will turn into a gore-fest. We both love the music and the style of gameplay, it's easy for him to grasp the controls and I really like the concept.

Haunt the House is a morbidly charming game. Its brevity suits it just fine, and does nothing to impact the near innocence of it all. Some of the images you use to scare people out of the building ( or ship ) are genuinely frightening, and the controls, while a little clumsy at first, soon feel almost natural. It's a good game to come to on a rainy day, and the soundtrack sets the funhouse tone perfectly. The 'ending' served the biggest shock of all, at least for me, but I'll wait for you to see it for yourself.

A short, but fun game that has a deeper background to it if you're observant. You play as a ghost who needs to scare people out of various places by possessing objects with your soul and performing various actions. If you want to get sort of a taste of what this game is like, you can play "Haunt the House" on a flash gaming site like Armor Games. This has about five times the content, with the christmas update from the developers. I think the audiovisual combination creates a world that you'll remain fond of even after finishing the game :)